From the Beast to the Blonde : On Fairytales And Their Tellers

Chatto & Windus, London, 1994. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. This study looks beyond the Freudian interpretation of fairy tales, to the tellers of the tales, and to the social and cultural contexts in which the tales are told and re-told through the centuries, from the ancient sibyls to the 18th-century "salonieres", and from Disney to Angela Carter. The value and enduring popularity of folk and fairy tales derives not only from their mythic significance but, crucially, from the fact that their concerns are rooted in the material world. Warner looks at favourite tales, from "Beauty and the Beast" to "Bluebeard", and a rich vein of other tales, in a historical perspective, showing how often the tellers were women - nurses, grandmothers, midwives, the 18th-century women who had no alternative literary voice - who produced tales to deal with actual, urgent dilemmas in the lives of their listeners: men, matrimony, sex and morality. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 458 pages. Dust Jacket has some shelf-wear, a few marks as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Edges have a couple of marks. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Myths, Legends & Folklore; ISBN: 0701135301. ISBN/EAN: 9780701135300. Inventory No: 51028. . 9780701135300